The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 98

The king, however, did not share his pleasure at all, but called up a soldier to shoot the tiger, much to the relief of all the inmates of the serai except Moti.

Who acts: king · What happens: not share, call up, shoot, please · To what, where: pleasure, all, soldier, tiger, relief

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 share	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 share	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 share	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 share	advmod
8	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pleasure	nmod:poss
10	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 share	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 share	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 share	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 called	compound:prt
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 soldier	det
18	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 shoot	mark
20	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 called	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tiger	det
22	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shoot	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 relief	punct
24	much	much	ADV	_	27 relief	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 relief	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 relief	det
27	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shoot	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 inmates	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 inmates	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 inmates	det
31	inmates	inmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 relief	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 serai	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 serai	det
34	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 inmates	nmod
35	except	except	ADP	_	36 Moti	case
36	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 serai	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 share	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not share	past · do-support	the king	king's pleasure	all	however property	tree rules
2	call up speech: assert	participle	the king not said here	a soldier			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shoot	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the tiger	the relief of all inmates of the serai except Moti		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme to relief=Destination
4	please		king				nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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